Leo Durocher Quotes

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In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Leo Durocher
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Leo Durocher
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Leo Durocher
As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Leo Durocher
Take a look at them. All nice guys. They'll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last.

Leo Durocher
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Leo Durocher
Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

Leo Durocher
It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

Leo Durocher
Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.

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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher
In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.

Leo Durocher